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Six mysterious rogue worlds spotted within cosmic cloud by Webb telescope
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17th-Century Mummified Brains Test Positive for Cocaine
Despite disco being centuries away, residents of 17th century Italy may have had a hankering for cocaine. Preserved human brains ...
New Y chromosome might be in decline, but men are here to stay; Here’s why
The Y chromosome, which plays a crucial role in determining male sex in humans, is shrinking. Over the past 300 ...
New Hubble Telescope image captures peculiar ring-shaped galaxy
A galaxy’s outstretched arms form a nearly perfect circle around its central disk in a striking new image from the ...
Startling New Research Reveals That CO2 Has More Impact Than Previously Thought
A study reveals that doubling atmospheric CO2 could raise Earth’s average temperature by up to 14 degrees, far exceeding current ...
Helen Fisher, MRI maven who showed how love works, dies • The Register
Noted anthropologist Dr Helen Fisher, who lead groundbreaking research into how the brain deals with love and passion, has died ...
NASA, Blue Origin Invite Media to New Glenn Launch of Mars Mission
NASA and Blue Origin are preparing for the agency’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) mission, which begins ...
Experiment sets new record in search for dark matter
LZ’s central detector, the time projection chamber, in a surface lab clean room before delivery underground. Credit: Matthew Kapust/Sanford Underground ...
Bison Licking Insect Bite: A 14,000-year-old lifelike figure carved from a weapon
Name: Bison Licking Insect Bite What it is: A figurine of a bison licking its flank Where it is from: ...
Discovery of a hidden epigenetic clock in mitochondria reveals a ‘lifespan limit line’
N6-methyladenine levels in the C. elegans mitochondrial genome gradually increase with age. (A) The 6mA progressively accumulates at different mtDNA ...
